Open AccessKnowledge and foretelling: On imagining future
Author(s) -
Predrag Krstić
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo1202085k
Subject(s) - metaphysics , epistemology , knowledge production , production (economics) , philosophy of science , philosophy , sociology , computer science , economics , knowledge management , macroeconomics
This paper presents and validates opposing notions regarding possibility of knowing the future. The medium for this enquiry is science fiction production in the literature, television and film. It finds that potential for knowing (in this production) demonstrate, illustrate, provokes, but also encounters the same epistemological, ethical and metaphysical quandaries that modern and contemporary philosophy deals with. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 43007: Istraživanje klimatskih promena i njihovog uticaja na životnu sredinu, praćenje uticaja, adaptacija i ublažavanje - podprojekat: Etika i politike životne sredine: institucije, tehnike i norme pred izazovom promena prirodnog okruženja i Projekat br. 41004: Retke bolesti: molekularna patofiziologija, dijagnostički i terapijski modaliteti i socijalni, etički i pravni aspekti - podprojekat: Bioetički aspekti: moralno prihvatljivo u biotehnološki i društveno mogućem